4 STAR DOWNBEAT REVIEW:>This admirable international quartet…mines the neglected pre-bop swing of the 52nd Street vintage small bands. The spread-chord harmonies, trumpet and alto apportionment, and precision ensemble work can fool the ear that this band is a larger unit. Resourcefulness isn’t limited to the fine playing and the arrangements, they have a nose for good, neglected material…Analogous originals make this group artistic kin to the best of the Arbors swing scholar/players, like Howard Alden and Dan Barrett….<Kirk Silsbee, DOWNBEAT (USA) ****

>This record has recently won the top awards a jazz record can win in France and Germany and tell you what, it’s so cool I almost can’t handle it. Anyone who ever dug Raymond Scott will get this set immediately. It sounds like some old timey recording until you start to pay real attention and hear that it has a today hipness that just didn’t exist 70 years ago. Then comes the gotcha. Even the originals sound like they could have leapt off Scott’s scratch pad. By defying all convention, these jazzbos present the crème that rises to the top. You don’t have to be hipster Eurotrash to dig this, you just have to get off on killer players pushing the envelope in unexpected ways. An absolutely welcome tonic from start to finish.<Chris Spector, MIDWEST RECORD (USA)

>…the group plays with absolutely impeccable time and a sense of swing that is simultaneously dead serious and lightly, elegantly fun. On 'Message from Mars' they adapt classical melodies by the likes of Chopin and Shostakovich(!), and take on respected standards like 'Don’t Explain' and 'Spring Is Here' with new arrangements that are as respectful as they are innovative. There are even a few originals slyly thrown in, among them a very fine blues composition by saxophonist Chris Hopkins playfully titled 'Twilightnin’ Hopkins'. This album is a delight from beginning to end. Grade: A!<Rick Anderson, MUSIC MEDIA MONTHLY (USA)

>There was a joke (I hope that’s what it was) about a young tenor player who, when asked if he listened to the past masters of the instrument, replied, 'Sure, man, I go all the way back to Coltrane'. Regrettably, such historical innocence is not rare, so it is gratifying to listen to the fifth recording by the German-based quartet Echoes of Swing, who are quite familiar with the music’s history and do it honor in recreating some of ist styles…It should be emphasized that the playing on this CD is far from dry, sterile museum fare. It is full of vitality, actually transporting the listener’s imagination back to the Swing Era. But lest one think these folks live exclusively in pre-Modern times, Dawson’s two vocals sound a lot like 1950s Chet Baker and at one point Hopkins quotes from Charlie Parker’s Bebop anthem 'Ornithology'.<David Franklin, CADENCE MAGAZINE (USA)